ABSTRACT
Dupuis’s book is very rare today.2 Most researchers know of it because the Abbé Vertôt reprinted it with the title Relation du siége de Rhodes en 1480 par Merri Dupui, témoin oculaire, in 1726.3 Vertôt described his source text as a Gothic imprint, and assured the reader that he retained the original’s spelling, but changed the punctuation to make it more readable. A comparison of Vertôt’s text with the two incunables, however, reveals that Vertôt modernized Dupuis’s spelling, punctuation, and changed every occurrence of the word “et” to ampersands. Also, on more than one occasion, Vertôt or his transcriber made errors reading the incunable’s typeface.
